Amateur film shot by Paul Engelmann, a Czech chemical engineer incarcerated by the French authorities in the internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). Film ID 4338 (excerpt from reel 1): Paul Engelmann in Prague before his emigration to France in March 1939. Paul and a woman smile while holding and petting a dog. The couple walks towards the camera smiling in Prague. Film ID 4339 (excerpts from ...

Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

Ruth Franken was born on July 15, 1937, in Haarlem, Netherlands, to Max, born on July 8, 1897, in Emmerich, Germany, and Irma Saloman, born on January 12, 1907, in Linden bei Bochum, Germany. Max served in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918), was wounded and received an Iron Cross and other military honors. He worked as an upholsterer. Irma was one of three children born to an Orthodox Jewish ...

This collection consists of two postcards sent by Cipa Wajncwajg to her husband Moszek Klainer and their children Bernard and Annie, while interned at the Dossin barracks in September 1942.

8mm film is severely compromised by mold. WS, pan of buildings in the city streets of Bucharest (Patriarchate Hill), pedestrians. Sugihara's official car with a small Japanese flag in FG. Driving along the city street in the car with tall buildings in BG. Toddler boy and mother, Yukiko Sugihara, pick flowers from the garden adjacent to the Japanese diplomat's residence. Sister Setsuko and two siblings ...

Slave labor at Westerbork transit camp. Recycling metals - men working at tables, putting things into baskets and barrels marked Kupfer [copper], Messing [brass], etc. Forward tracking shot through shop past workers, including at least one woman. Man with goggles and sledge hammer working outside on metal rods. (Some scenes marred by camera fault). Close view of men at work table, in assorted clothing ...

Gabryela Bromberg was born on August 27, 1938 in Lublin, Poland. She was the only daughter of Rachela Epsztajn Bromberg and Michał Bromberg. In 1939 the Bromberg family moved to Zamość, Poland. During the liquidation of the Zamość ghetto, the Jewish population was forced into transit camp in Izbica. At that time Gabryela’s parents were already deported to Sobibór concentration camp, where they both ...

Margalit Ben Ami was born on October 9, 1937, as Gretha Dotsch in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the middle daughter of Samuel Dotsch (b. October 11, 1911) and Elisabeth Viskoop Dotsch (b. June 25, 1910). Samuel owned a leather goods workshop in which he produced handbags and belts. Elisabeth helped in the business, but she mainly took care of the children. The oldest daughter, Sonja, was born on January ...

Lagerkommandantur Westerbork Rudolf Breslauer (1903-1944) was a photographer and lithographer by trade, educated at the Academy for Art Photography in Germany. He was married to Bella Weihsmann and had three children: Stephan, Mischa, and Ursula. They fled Leipzig and settled in the Netherlands in 1938. In the summer of 1940, non-Dutch Jews were forced to leave Leiden because the city was near the ...

King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests board the Potomac. FDR and the Queen converse. The press films the event, including Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The King lays a wreath on Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon and visit the gardens. ...

Judith Bar Kochba (b. 1934) was born Judith (Yehudit) Sophie Kann on July 28, 1934, in Dortrcht, Netherlands, to Jacob Kann (August 22, 1900-1944) and Dora Juliette Kann (June 8, 1906-1944). Jacob Kann, an electrical engineer, married Dora Juliette Spanjaard in 1928. They had four children: Otto Kann (b. November 6, 1929); Elise Kann (b. December 23, 1930); Judith Kann (b. July 28, 1934); and Jacob ...

Louis Moses (1930-) was born on 9 February 1930 in Rikswijk, the Netherlands to Froukje (née Hoogstraal, later Vos) and Siemon Moses. Louis had one sister, Engeline. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Louis’s parents sent him into hiding with a Christian family in The Hague. After the neighborhood was deemed unsafe, he was moved to a new family where he was reunited with his mother. ...

Edward Haven (born Edward Karol Rechtszafen) is the son of Ludwik Rechtszafen (later Louis Haven, 1901-ca 1956) and Bronislawa Rechtszafen (née Bart). He was born on October 28, 1933 in Warsaw, Poland where his father owned a leather factory and numerous real estate properties. They lived in an apartment located in a building belonging to Edward's paternal grandparents, Ignacy Maksimilian Rechtszafen ...

Sonja de Kadt feeds a bottle to the baby laying across her lap, while a dog looks on; the woman holds Willie's arm up to wave to the camera, shows her various toys, and puts her finger in her mouth to show off the first teeth; 01:01:25 Willie walks with her mother's help, and is fed; 01:04:51 an older woman, probaby best friend Kees van Wyck's wife, holding her baby daughter; mother Sonja de Kadt holds ...

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Quick shots of a woman walking away from the camera, baby, a man working on railroad tracks, Sonja carrying Willie in a crowd of people, a house from across a set of railroad tracks, while a train passes; 01:00:54 a road sign reads "Laag Soeren" (a village 140 km away from the de Kadt family home in Schoorl); 01:01:27 a large group of adults, including Sonja and Louis de Kadt, wait for a train, walk ...

<p>Ilse Pauline Majer (1928-2003) was born in Vienna, the only child of a wealthy Jewish banker, Berthold Majer (born 1883 in Lutonina, Czechoslovakia) and his wife Lilly, née Werber (born 1899 in Bielitz, Poland), who got married in 1926. After the "Anschluss" Ilse was no longer able to attend her school. In July 1939 Ilse was sent to an aunt, her father's sister Sidi in Czechoslovakia, hoping to ...

Basia Garfinkel was born in Będzin, Poland, on November 2, 1927 to Josef Garfinkel (b. 1889) and Jochewed Beitner (b. 1886). Josef owned a general store and a workshop where holiday frocks were sewn. He was a very observant man and follower of the Radomsk Rabbi. The family spoke Yiddish at home and lived at Modrzejewska 44, a building where most of the residents were Jewish, including the Weinstein, ...

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Betty Rosenbaum was born on August 7, 1941, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) and Johanna Fredericka Suzanna Zion Rosenbaum. Eil was born on June 7, 1913, in Roden, Netherlands, the only child of Bertha and Izaak Levie Rosenbaum. Johanna was born on February 20, 1914, in Eibergen, Netherlands, where her family owned a textile business. Johanna had five siblings: Julius Jacob, ...

Reel 2: 00:00:00 Brief shot of a German soldier on guard through a wrought iron fence. German soldiers drive down a city street in an open-top car, pull over and consult a map while looking at the various streets. Next shot shows a soldier painting an arrow on a makeshift sign set up in the street (with 12th Panzer Division symbol, Y in a circle). The car full of soldiers continues and pulls in front ...

Session 32. Iranian Jews are being discussed in the reading of a document into the record by the Prosecution. This document includes Iranian Jews who practice other faiths in the extermination, to be treated the same as the Jews of Europe. The document is signed by Eichmann. 00:03:54 A document is being read into the record by the Prosecution, signed by Eichmann, saying that as soon as transports were ...

Slow pan of a city on a waterway; tree-lined banks and steepled buildings; extended views of the flatlands across the water from town, including a windmill and people working in the fields; 01:01:17 detailed views of the edifices of various buildings in the town of De Rijp, and of a canal, taken from an upstairs window; 01:02:56 Slow pan of a smokestack and chimney emanating steam; surrounding houses ...